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"Just by way of a Change": 5

[Image: A fashionably dressed woman is outside her door attempting to put her house key in the lock. Her husband is leaning out of a window above the door in his pajamas. He has a watch in his hands that reads 5:00. There are two milk cans on the…

Tags: Absent wife, ACTIVITIES, Angry man, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, Appealing, APPEARANCE, British, CLASS, Clock, FASHION, Fashionable, Feminized man, FOOD, GENDER/SEXUALITY, Hat, HOUSEHOLD, Husband, Inequality, Key, Man, MARRIAGE, Middle class, Milk, PUBLIC, Rights, Shoes, Wife, without children, Woman, Working class, Working man

Votes for Mothers

Politics governs
even the purity of the
milk supply.
It is not outside the home
but
inside
the
baby.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Tags: Activist, AGE, American, California, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, FOOD, HISTORICAL FIGURES, HOUSEHOLD, Infant, Milk, Motherhood, PARENTHOOD, PRIVATE, PRO-SUFFRAGE, Toy

What I says is

"WHAT I SAYS IS: BE GOOD TO THE
CAT, AND YOU SAVE HALF YOUR
POT WASHING."

Tags: AGE, Angry, Angry woman, ANIMAL, ANTI-SUFFRAGE, APPEARANCE, British, Cat, CLASS, Domestic servant, EMOTIONS, FASHION, Fashionable, FOOD, Kitchen, Middle class, Milk, NON-HUMAN, Older woman, PRIVATE, Unappealing, Working class, Working woman

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"Just by way of a Change": 5

Votes for Mothers

What I says is